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" The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. "

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" In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible. "

" The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes. "

" I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge. "

" Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. "

" Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be. "

" I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could do that. "

" Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator. "

" I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue. "

" If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power. "

" Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits. "

" Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process. "

" I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else. "

" A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable. "

" If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work. "

" I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week. "

" When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate. "

" The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. "

" Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions. "

" The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. "

" Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing. "

" Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work. "

" We're not going to outgrow our need for information. "

" Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable. "

" I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. "

" Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone. "

" Dig your well before you're thirsty. "

" If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons. "

" The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else. "

" This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over. "